The Clip Quiz - Violin Concertos

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18 - seems to fit Tikhon Khrennikov.

His first violin concerto. The fiddler here is Leonid Kogan.

20 - Lalo. So THAT's where I've heard that. He has other works than the Espagnole....

Right, his Violin concerto Nº 1 in f minor.

33. -Chausson. Likewise....

In this noisy recording what you hear is Thibaud's Strad, the one destroyed in the plane crash where he lost his life.

That hint alone was sufficient, but the clips confirm it: nr. 31 is Schumann.

Right.

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17 - Piston ? Though the selftaught stuff reminds me of Roy Harris.....

Nope. It's the Violin concerto by Stanley Wolfe. Composed in 1987, it was premiered two years later by Mark Peskanov and Leonard Slatkin.

Listening For a Mahler Connection[/size]
By DONAL HENAHAN
Published: February 11, 1989

(...) Mr. Slatkin's choice of a companion piece for the Shostakovich was Stanley Wolfe's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. A 1987 piece in which Mark Peskanov made his Philharmonic debut as the soloist, it did not afford the program great contrast. Not that Mr. Wolfe's score at all resembled the Shostakovich in intensity or the sense of needing to say something important. The concerto, played earnestly but without much flair by the violinist, came across as well-crafted, sober and uneventful, a not-too-distant relative of Sibelius.

Mr. Wolfe, who has been associated with the Juilliard School for nearly 40 years, first as student, then as faculty member, writes in a fairly conventionally lyrical, tonal idiom that goes down easily. No complaints about that from this quarter. However, the first two movements of his half-hour concerto sounded much the same, both pervasively mournful in effect if not intent. The faster final movement offers the violinist a lively, almost danceable tune at first, but even here a solemn interlude soon appears to choke off any sign of life. THE PROGRAM NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Mark Peskanov, violinist. At Avery Fisher Hall. Stanley Wolfe . . . Violin Concerto Shostakovich . . . Symphony No. 8

Full concert review here.

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22 - Hubay??

A more... Belgian guy... Charles Auguste de Beriot. The excerpt comes from the last minutes of his first violin concerto (in D Major, Op. 16).
His wife was Maria Malibran.

So where does that put the Glazunov??

The 35th.


Listen to the whole work again, by the poetic Myron Polyakin (1895-1941):
DOWNLOAD

Miron Polyakin, violin
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Orlov, conductor - 1939


As bonus: the same violinist in a fairly audible recording of the Serenade Melancolique.
http://rapidshare.com/files/78154048/poliakin_Tchaikovsky_Serenade_Melancolique.mp3


Looking for more info about Poliakin I found this long discussion at violinist.comabout why Heifetz didn't record many works by Paganini

http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=9386

It's very interesting.

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10 - Edison Denisov: Partita, pour violon et orchestre; d'après la partition n°2 en ré mineur BWV 1004 de Bach

Edison Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia into the family of radio-physicist, who gave him the very unusual first name Edison, in honour of the great American inventor. He studied mathematics before deciding to spend his life composing. This decision was enthusiastically supported by Dmitri Shostakovich, who gave him instructions in composition.

In 1951-56 Denisov studied at the Moscow Conservatory - composition with Vissarion Shebalin, orchestration with Nikolai Rakov, analysis with Viktor Zuckerman and piano with Vladimir Belov. In 1956-59 he composed an opera Ivan-Soldat (Soldier Ivan) in three acts on a subject from Russian folk fairy tales.

15 - Cesar Guerra Peixe: Concertino para violino e orquestra de cámara

César Guerra-Peixe (born March 18, 1914 in Petrópolis; died November 26, 1993 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian violinist and composer. As a composer he did several works using twelve-tone technique, but switched in 1949 to works inspired by Brazilian roots.[1] His music can be heard in many Brazilian films.[2]

As an ethnomusicologist, he also wrote an important book "Os Maracatus do Recife" on Maracatu.

26 - Marc O'Connor: Fiddle Concerto.

Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is a widely known professional fiddler. As a teenager he won national championships on the guitar, mandolin as well as the fiddle. His mentors were Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson and Jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. He has recorded solo albums for Rounder, Warner Bros. Records, Sony, and his own CD line OMAC Records. He has won two Grammy awards, one for his New Nashville Cats album and another for his Appalachian Journey album he did with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer. He was named Musician of the Year by the Country Music Association six years in a row (from 1991-1996).

O'Connor has crossed musical genres, composing, arranging, and recording folk, classical and jazz music. His Fiddle Concerto has received over 200 performances making it one of the most performed concertos written in the last 50 years. He has composed six violin concertos, string quartets, string trios, choral works, solo unaccompanied works and a new Symphony. He has worked and recorded with a wide variety of artists, such as James Taylor, Bela Fleck, Renee Fleming, Stéphane Grappelli, and Wynton Marsalis. Some of his more recent albums are or contain tributes to his musical mentors and inspirations, including Niccolò Paganini, Benny Thomasson, and Grappelli.

34 - Bernard Tan: Violin concerto

Born in Singapore in 1943, Bernard Tan Tiong Gie was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, the University of Singapore (Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics, 1965) and Oxford University (Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science, 1968). He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K), Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Singapore, and Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London.

Professor Tan joined the then University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) in 1968 as a Lecturer in Physics and served first as Vice-Dean and then as Dean of Science at NUS for 12 years from 1985 to 1997. He has also been Head of Physics, Acting Head of Music, and Associate Director of the Centre for Musical Activities and Director of the Office of Student Affairs.

Professor Tan is currently Professor of Physics and Dean of Students at NUS, where he is also Chairman of the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) and the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS).

He sits on the boards of Keppel Corporation, k1 eBiz, the Singapore Symphonia Company and CSA Holdings, and is Chairman of Keppel Credit Union. He is Chairman of the Singapore Arts Festival Steering Committee and the Singapore Youth Awards Science and Technology Advisory Committee. He is President of the Institute of Physics Singapore and Vice-President of the Singapore National Academy of Science.

His current research interests are in microwave solid-state properties and devices, digital musical analysis and synthesis, and directional perception of multiple sound sources. He has published over 85 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. As a composer, U.S. music publisher Neil Kjos has published a number of his choral works, and his Piano Concerto was premiered in January 2002 by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, the Singapore Symphony performed the world premier of his new Violin Concerto with violinist Lynnette Seah as soloist.

Professor Tan has been awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver), the Public Service Medal, the Public Service Star and the Public Service Star (Bar).

[violinconcerto]

Oh, you put Stanley Wolfe in your quiz! Wonderful to meet someone else who know this composition! In my opinion one of the top violin concertos from 20th century and I think nearly unknown. What a tragedy!
Do you have the CD or a broadcast performance?

[The new erato]

Let me just conclude what an extremely valuable thread this has been, and my thanks to Manuel for taking the trouble. Despite 35 years of on/off collecting, reasonably avid reading of various music magazines and he occasional music book, the clips contains at least 4 composers I've never heard of. Despite being an admirer of the Busch Quartet, I'd never heard of Bohnke, and wasn't aware of Adolf Busch as a composer (though I'm not surprised).

What further strikes is how, despite the diligent efforts of labels like cpo, Naxos, Olympia, Hyperion et al ad nauseum, how much interesting, even good, music there still is to know. I intend to listen closely to these clips and hunt some of these concertoes down. Not all are available, and not all seems equally interesting, but some will be intersting to listen to further (the Wolf-Ferrari on cpo for example).

And your challenge even prompted me to dig out some of my own records I hadn't heard for a while and listen closely, I finally seem to get the Glazunov as the great concerto it is, and my what a fine work the Bernstein Serenade is (that was no surprise to me BTW). My listening to Szymanowski, Bartok, Prokofiev, Khatchaturian etc wasn't a total waste, either.

Next time Manuel, be sure to include some of my more obscure favorites like the 2nd concertoes  of Tischenko, Milhaud and Petterson, as well as William Schumanns only violin concerto!

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Let me just conclude what an extremely valuable thread this has been, and my thanks to Manuel for taking the trouble. Despite 35 years of on/off collecting, reasonably avid reading of various music magazines and he occasional music book, the clips contains at least 4 composers I've never heard of. Despite being an admirer of the Busch Quartet, I'd never heard of Bohnke, and wasn't aware of Adolf Busch as a composer (though I'm not surprised).

What further strikes is how, despite the diligent efforts of labels like cpo, Naxos, Olympia, Hyperion et al ad nauseum, how much interesting, even good, music there still is to know. I intend to listen closely to these clips and hunt some of these concertoes down. Not all are available, and not all seems equally interesting, but some will be intersting to listen to further (the Wolf-Ferrari on cpo for example).

And your challenge even prompted me to dig out some of my own records I hadn't heard for a while and listen closely, I finally seem to get the Glazunov as the great concerto it is, and my what a fine work the Bernstein Serenade is (that was no surprise to me BTW). My listening to Szymanowski, Bartok, Prokofiev, Khatchaturian etc wasn't a total waste, either.

Next time Manuel, be sure to include some of my more obscure favorites like the 2nd concertoes  of Tischenko, Milhaud and Petterson, as well as William Schumanns only violin concerto!

Thank you very much for playing. 

These I can upload right now:
Wolf Ferrari
Guerra Peixe
O'Connor

Those with interest in other pieces just let me know.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Seconded, erato! Manuel, you have done a fine job.

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I enjoyed this very much too. I previously ignored most of the information I used for the clues... so after you asked for guidance I had to spend some time in Google collecting data, in an attempt to make consistent hints.

[Maciek]

Tischenko

Yeah, love that one too!

You should also include at least one by Bacewicz... 0:)

[The new erato]

And soon we are to get Pizzettis Violin Concerto, courtesy of DG (bad joke, who would believe it?), more seriously, by Naxos, God bless them.

http://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?op=399&displayMenu=Naxos_News&type=2

[violinconcerto]

There exists already a recording of the Pizzetti violin concerto with Pina Carmirelli (violin). I am not sure if it is just and only a broadcast performance or there was an LP recording of it as well. I did not find it that exciting. Why are you looking so badly for it?

[The new erato]

It was just mentioned as an example of the digging up of relatively unfamiliar works being done, and how much unknown stuff there's around.. I'm quite sure most users on this forum have never heard it (or of it). I'm relatively unfamiliar with Pizzetis music myself, and what little I've heard have never impressed me. But it is interesting that it will be released anyway....

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Here's one of the works in the quiz: the violin concerto by Stanley Wolfe (1987)

http://www.mediafire.com/?36t1ddfjmxl

Mark Peskanov
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

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I intend to listen closely to these clips and hunt some of these concertoes down. Not all are available, and not all seems equally interesting, but some will be intersting to listen to further (the Wolf-Ferrari on cpo for example).

Popsike reports a mint condition LP of Bustabo's Wolf-Ferrari concerto sells at 430 USD. 

[violinconcerto]

But you can find a Bustabo performance of the Wolf-Ferrari for much less on the CD set "The Bustabo legacy", which can be purchased from Albert ten Brink directly (if you still have copies): http://www.classicalrecords.com/
Or sometimes on ebay.